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82 Fundraising and Social Media Stats for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The typical return donor made a second donation around 349 days after their first donation. However, 19% of donors return within the first 90 days ( The State of Modern Philanthropy Report ). 29% of annual donation volume occurs from #GivingTuesday through the end of the year ( The State of Modern Philanthropy Report ).

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5 Years of Nonprofit Fundraising Stats: [2015 to 2020] And 6 Trends to Know

Whole Whale

Small nonprofits saw a 17% decline in donations during April, May, and June 2020 compared to the prior year. The outlook for nonprofits in 2021 and 2022 seeking more donations is optimistic—this is especially true if your nonprofit is flexible and willing to adapt to the online donation ecosystem. Corporate giving totaled $18.45

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The Networked Nonprofit Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If You Want An Answer, Ask Everyone by Jane Wales, Huffington Post, provides an overview of crowdsourcing in philanthropy and quotes from the chapter in our book on crowdsourcing. He raises a good point and even makes up a new word: spamanthropism (spam + philanthropism). The next few weeks are going to be hectic to say the least.

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Philanthropist 2.0: Crowdsourced Advised Funds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Paul Buchheit is the created of Gmail and Adsense and has set up collaborative process to get advice on how he should donate "a bunch of money." He isn't relying on the traditional approach of asking an expert, but wants to crowdsource suggestions through social networks. It will be interesting to see how this experiment works.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! An important aspect of this is the opposite question: why do people stop making donations?

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

James Rooney, senior manager of Microsoft Philanthropies, kicked off the first day's general session, highlighting the free cloud services available to nonprofits. Marketing principles still apply: Give your donors a date to donate by — deadlines work. Nonprofits Get Free Microsoft Azure Credits.

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Nonprofits and the Age of Automation: AI, Machine Learning, Bots Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Machine Made Goods: Charities, Philanthropy & Artificial Intelligence Report: The Charities Aid Foundation (GivingTuesday UK partner) has recently released a report that discusses the profound implications Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have for civil society and the work of charities.

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